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Harpy Blinks by R.G Rankine for Thinking Plainly Limited.
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From left: James Blatch, Kimberli Bindschatel, Nick Thacker, Adam Fuller, JD Lasica (appropriately in the dark), Amanda Fuller, John and Cathy Hindmarsh, Kevin Tumlinson at Firefly Tapas.
Sponsored by Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Indie Author Day featured a panel of accomplished guests discussing the business behind the books and how to be successful in the industry. Writers and their communities connected for a day of education, networking, and opportunity.
Speakers and panelists included:
Keynote speaker
Mark Peres - www.onlifeandmeaning.com/markperes
Panelists
Marisa Wesley - covermedarling.com/
Debra Funderburk - www.thecharlottewritingacademy.org/coaching
Dawn Michelle Hardy - dreamrelationspr.com/
Moderator
Ann Stawski - www.annstawski.com/home.html
Oct 12, 2019 at The Brooklyn Collective
Learn more about The Brooklyn Collective at www.makeitcharlotte.com/
Photo courtesy: Everett Blackmon
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Would you hire these people to edit your manuscript?
This is a page from the The Polished Pen web site. Can you spot the error? The error is repeated in three of the four blocks on this page and on other pages on their site. The error should have been caught in even the most basic proof-reading pass by the least experienced proof-reader or copy-editor on the staff. Instead, this is the pricing page for the site.
Note the prices as indicated in the text: Line editing - .008 cents per word. That is, eight one-thousandths of a cent per word. Or, eight cents per thousand words. That's right, kids, you can have your hundred-thousand word manuscript line-edited for only eight bucks!
But wait! At the bottom of the block, the price is indicated, correctly, I assume, as $.008 per word; that is, eight one-thousandths of a dollar per word, which works out to eight-tenths of a cent per word, or a little less than a penny. At this price, the line-editing for your manuscript starts to get a little bit pricier.
"Well," the editors at this web site could say, "we're writers, not mathematicians."
This isn't math. It's punctuation and usage.
Note that the same error appears, with different numbers, in three of the four pricing blocks.
Apparently, I deduce based on their Google search rankings, this is one of the more popular editing services for independent authors. A search for "indie book editing" returns The Polished Pen as the first non-sponsored result.
I pity da foo' who hires these fucktards less than entirely competent editors to revise his or her manuscript. But I suppose it's a pretty safe gig: the editors likely realize that many quasi-illiterate indie authors won't recognize the errors in the edit for which they've paid eight... errr... I mean eight-hundred dollars.
I wonder if I could make a few dollars offering line editing on Fiverr?
(Actually, I was researching how to offer such services on Fiverr when I ran across this web site. Obviously there's a need out there for basic grammar and punctuation editing by somebody who, like, knows how to do it!)
I used to try teach this stuff to special ed kids. Apparently nobody is bothering to teach it to to these millennials who pass themselves off as digital professionals.
*Try an internet search. You'll find 'em.
Sponsored by Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Indie Author Day featured a panel of accomplished guests discussing the business behind the books and how to be successful in the industry. Writers and their communities connected for a day of education, networking, and opportunity.
Speakers and panelists included:
Keynote speaker
Mark Peres - www.onlifeandmeaning.com/markperes
Panelists
Marisa Wesley - covermedarling.com/
Debra Funderburk - www.thecharlottewritingacademy.org/coaching
Dawn Michelle Hardy - dreamrelationspr.com/
Moderator
Ann Stawski - www.annstawski.com/home.html
Oct 12, 2019 at The Brooklyn Collective
Learn more about The Brooklyn Collective at www.makeitcharlotte.com/
Photo courtesy: Everett Blackmon
Panels of authors and publishers gathered at Morrison Regional Library for a day of education, networking, and mingling with the local writing community.
The author panel included:
Mary Jane Capps
Rosy Crumpton
Tracy Curtis
Darin Kennedy
The publishing panel included:
Roy Serrao, BiblioBoard
Betsy Thorpe, Betsy Thorpe Literary Services
Mindy Kuhn, Warren Publishing
John Hartness, Falstaff Books
Photo courtesy: Everett Blackmon
What if everything you thought you knew was wrong?
We're taught in Sunday School that angels are benevolent beings who watch over us, who love and protect us at every turn. Yet the Revelation of John from the Christian Bible states that it is the angels who will pour out God's wrath on humanity, murdering billions of people. If you were an angel and truly loved those you watched over, could you destroy them, even if God commanded you to?
And if you couldn't, who would God send to do the job in your place?
Suspenseful, thrilling, and controversial, in The Awakening we find a world where nothing is quite what it seems, where the truth of spiritual reality has been distorted by millennia of folktales and mythology. While angels exist, they aren't what we believe them to be. They are the Old Ones, living among us from the time they were sent here, over 2,000 years ago, with a dark mission they chose to reject. Having fallen in love with mankind, some of the Old Ones work behind the scenes, teaching our great spiritual leaders while other immortals have entered into relationships with humankind, their angelic blood mingling with our own, manifesting in gifts widely considered to be psychic abilities and prophetic dreams.
Seamlessly weaving Hopi, Mayan and Christian prophesies with current events and the theories of quantum physics, The Awakening is a novel of the ending of a reality, of the reclaiming of a dimension that we call home. Told from a perspective beyond the filter of mythology, the beginning of the end is shown from a non-religious perspective while embracing the spiritual origins of our own existence.